Bob Goff Quotes

Grace flows most refreshingly through the faucet of brokenness.

I love the concept of the romance that exists when people are broken. Like, the promise of a romance when you're at the bottom. I think that's infinitely compelling and romantic.

If you wake up / And the day feels broken / Just lean into the crack

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

We were built to fall apart and fall back together.

You haven't been through one thing that God cannot heal you from.

You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.

The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.

In the many trials of life, when we feel abandoned and when sorrow, sin, disappointment, failure, and weakness make us less than we should ever be, there can come the healing salve of the unreserved love in the grace of God. It is a love that lifts and blesses. It is a love that sustains a new beginning on a higher level and thereby continues "from grace to grace."

Maybe he was more than the sum of his broken parts.

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke.

I'm interested in the ways that we're all broken.

My dad was a great man, and I loved him, but he had some demons he fought. It was tough to see some of those things as a kid, but I believe God doesn't save you from things; he saves you through them.

You awaken your True spirit by way of the broken heart: ragged, vulnerable, fierce and finally compassionate. Chris trod this rough way and shows honestly how it can be done.

A broken life in the hands of God is ripe for blessing.

God doesn't break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.

Sometimes broken people stay broken.

Our brokenness has no other beauty but the beauty that comes from the compassion that surrounds it.

We are not called to bring a broken planet back to its created glory. But we are to call broken people back to their creator.

God grows fragrant flowers of hope in the ashes of loss.

I'm ruined beyond repair, is what I fear...And if so, in time we'd both be wretched and bitter." "I know people can be mended. Not all, and some more immediately than others. But some can be. I don't see why not you." "Why not me?

If a piece of knotted string can unleash the wind, and if a drowned man can awaken, then I believe a broken man can heal.